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I'm just wondering if others experience episodes of euphoria that last from a few days to a week. My psychiatrist says that my elevated episodes don't last long enough to be diagnosed bipolar and that they fit bpd instead. They usually, but not always, happen when my antipsychotic is changed or I'm put on an antipsychotic that is ineffective for me. Sometimes they happen when I get put on a new antidepressant but they have also happened just randomly.

I also become really impulsive and spend all my money and get into casual sexual encounters and dont' use protection. I also get very little sleep and feel really hyper even when i only got 3-4 hours of sleep a night for days on sleeping meds. I once went almost a week in college before I was diagnosed without sleep.

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She says my euphoric moods are too often and too short (usually last between 3-7 days) The longest it lasted was like 2 and a half weeks according to my friends that ended when they put me on seroquel and stopped the antidepressant I was on.

She has really been pushing bpd on me. I'm a difficult patient because I haven't been very respondent to antidepressants or even ECT. My depression is persistent and the longest period I've had without either depression or elevated mood was about a week and a half and i was psychotic during that period. non-depressed or non-euphoric i'd say is about 2 days in the past four years.

I'm a little confused by the bpd diagnosis because I dont' have the interpersonal problems most people with bpd have. I have stable relationships with my friends and family and my romantic relationships aren't chaotic.

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Well BPD isn't treated specifically one med so it would make sense your somewhat resistant. Have you considered a second opinion? Seems like lots of questions that ur having trouble getting answers for

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Yeah it sounds like you're not really on the same page...she's telling you that BPD causes euphoria like that? I'm not a BPD expert but it seems like those symptoms, combined with the correlation to antidepressant use, should at least be investigated a bit more. To be clear, I am not saying you definitely have bipolar or anything else for that matter- just that maybe you need a fresh perspective to reassess- it really comes down to whether the doc is communicating with you well enough to identify what needs treatment